Apparatus for distilling water



l UNITED STATES.

PATENT OEEICE.

MARTIN L. SARGENT, OF VICIIITA, KANSAS.

APPARATUS FOR DISTILLING WATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 562,326, dated June 16,1896.

Application filed June 2l, 1895.

serai No. 553,555. or@ model.)

for Distilling Water, of which the following is a specication, referencebeing had there- 111 to the accompanying drawings, and the 4figures ofreference thereon, forming a part of this specification, in which-Figure lis a detail view of the con cavo-conveX plates. Fi g. 2 is a topplan of my improved apparatus for distilling water. Fig. 3 is asectional view of the'same, and Fig. 4 is a side view of the apparatuscomplete.

This invention relates to certain improvements in apparatus fordistilling water; and it consists of steamgenerating chambers, steamcondensing chambers with steamspreading plates, warm water receptacles,puried-water receptacle, and pipes connecting the several receptacles;and the object is to provide an apparatus of cheap construction fordistilling water for domestic purposes.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a hot-water or steam-generatingreceptacle. 2 is a cover for the same.

3 represents a receptacle for holding the purified water made from thecondensed steam. 4l is a faucet for drawing off the same.

5 is a packing for the purpose of more completely separating thepurified-water receptacle from the heat of the steam-generating chamber.

6 is a packing around the pipe 7, for the same purpose asthe packing 5.Said pipe 7 is a ipe leading from the steam-Generating chamber 1 to thecondensing-chamber S and is for the purpose of providing a passage-wayfrom one to the other of said chambersland S. Said condensing-chamber Sis provided with the concave-convex plate 12 and is for the purpose ofretarding the upward passage of the steam from one chamber, S, to theone above. Said chamber 8 is also provided with the concave bottom formaking a drainage from the said chambers S through the pipes 16 to thenent chamber below untilit reaches the first chamber 8 above thepurified-water receptacle S, which is provided with the drippipe 10,which leads to the said purified-water chamber 3. The pipe 7 reachessomewhat above the bottom of the said lower chamber 8, as shown at 11,to prevent the water from dripping back into the steam generatingchamber l.

13 represents covers to the chambers 8.

14 represents Vwater-receptacles and is for the purpose of holding waterto be somewhat heated by the steam in the condensing-chambers 8 and thepipes 16, ready to be turned into the steam-generating chamber 1. 15represents covers to said water-receptacles.

16 are pipes leading from one chamber 8 to another. 17 is a washersecured to said pipes to act as a center bearing .for the differentreceptacles.

18 is a pipeleading out of the top condensing-chamber 8 for the purposeof allowing the uncondensed steam to escape. If it should becomenecessary to provide more condensing-chambers to condense all of thesteam, they can be added.

19 represents a iilling-pipe for the purpose of filling thewater-receptacles 14, through the medium of the short connecting-pipes2l.

2O is an enlarged end to said pipe 19|, where the water is poured intosaid pipe 19..

22 is a stop-cock, which, when opened, allows the warm water to passfrom the receptacles 145 to the steam-generating chamber l, through themedium of the pipe Said pipe 23 is provided with the valve 24C, which isfor the purpose of preventing the steam from escaping through said pipe23. Said valve 24 is adapted to be opened when it is desired to fill thechamber 1 from the chambers 14.

25 is a faucet for drawing the water from the chamber 1, when it isdesired.

26 represents legs on the plate 12 for holding said plate about midwayin the chambers S.

27 are legs secured to the bottom of each of the chambers 8.

I do not wish to be limited to any particular kind of steam-generatingchambers.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows In theherein-described apparatus, for distilling water, the combination of thesteam- IOO generating receptacle, l, the condensingchambers, 8, thepipe, 7, leadiu g from the generating-receptacle, 1, to one of saidcondensing-chambers 8 extending somewhat above the bottom of saidcondensing-chamber, the

-puriiied-Water receptacle, 3, having the paal@ ing 5 in the bottom ofsaid receptacle, and the packing, G, in said receptacle, and around saidpipe 7 for the purpose speciied, the drip pipe 10 leading from thebottoni of said con* densing-chamber, to the top of said purified- Waterreceptacle, said receptacles separated by an air-space, the Warm-Waterreceptacles 14 located on one of said condensing-chainbers, thedrip-pipes, 16, leading from one of said condensing-chambers to another,passing through said Warm-Water receptacles, the feed-pipes 19 havingthe pipes 21, forcarrying the Warm Water from said Warm-Water receptacle14: through the pipe 19 to the steam-generating receptacle, 1.

MARTIN L. SARGENT.

Vitnesses:

L. E. POTTER, L. H. SARGENT.

